Update: Because Charles Joseph Smith has lost income due to the pandemic (the Fine Arts Building, where he teaches piano lessons and works as an accompanist, is closed), on April 11 he launched a GoFundMe campaign to help him afford to have food delivered.
“Charles and I met through Chicago artist and oracle Angel Bat Dawid, who appears in the video,” says Moussavi. “Angel, myself, and our collaborators in Raw Music International have been working on a documentary together for the last year, and Dr. Charles made a cameo in that film. Angel is a big fan and supporter of Charles’s work, and suggested we shoot a video for him. Charles invited us to the Fine Arts Building, where he teaches piano lessons, and when we arrived we found that beautiful room you see in the video. It was that dusky time of evening, everything was blue, you could see the lake, and the whole feeling and concept came together when we stood in the center of the room.”
